Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
For
r e a s o n s
Hundreds of people lining both sides of Fifth Street near the courthouse for No Kings Day.
farewell, Michael Hague—thank you for all the beauty.
it’s like he walked into a house, decided he didn’t like the curtains, and set them on fire, with predictable results which are totally not his fault because he only wanted to strike the curtains, sometimes houses burn down, these things happen, it’s very sad
so we bought a mangle this morning
I guess this annual tie dye thing is getting serious
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
how deliciously shiny and warm and soft and OH right this is why we put up with cats.
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
clearly there are much more important bits in Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter for yesterday, but I couldn’t help a little tear of pride that Julia Ward Howe was a bard and the Battle Hymn of the Republic is filk.
Doug Jones is 54% Tall, 38% Hands and 8% Quizzical Head Tilts.
to you, Catherine O’Hara. your immortality rests in your work, in a busy international terminal, in a small New England town, in the deathless celebration of death that is Halloween, in a place called Schitt’s Creek, in countless hearts. one is mine. hail and farewell, lady.
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
I was born on the edge of a great marsh and raised near another. (drove across bits of both today and feeling nostalgic.) so—when do I get my Bog Witch starter kit? I’ll take Marsh Hag if they’re out
happy Tuesday the 23rd to all who celebrate (I think that’s just me actually). one little fart of positivity in the cloud of debris pluming up from the wastage of 2025. cheers
…Cathursday.
driving teen to school, great song comes on the radio
teen: hehe. That sounded like he said “I want my own TV”
me: MTV. He said MTV
teen: What’s MTV?
me: let me pull over before I crumble into d—you know what, I’ll tell you after school
maybe if we deep-fried him
I enjoy many of your pieces, but that possum in the hat gets me every time. 😍
Time to take Halloween down
Before the rain comes round
How do I reach for decor way up high?
Carefully,
carefully,
careful - l-y.
A bearded man reclining on a futon with a black-and-white Husky mix cuddled into his arm, pleading with him to save her from The Bath.
can confirm, my Husky mix stole my man years ago. I ❤️ Lucy.
A right hand curled into thumbs-up position, with an oval sticker reading I Voted/Yo Voté stuck on the thumb.
wait. wait…I’m having a very uncomfortable notion. could…federal indictment be a stamp of APPROVAL from the Felon in Chief?!
how many kitted-out turkey dinners would $300 million buy? asking for same 340 million friends
List of Trump ballroom donors, released by the White House.
oh hey thanks for the list of pathetic pay-to-players, WH (and HCR)…I’ll keep it handy.
A ceramic raven perched at the top of an open book.
I never saw myself as the tiki mug type but here we are
You’ve just described an SCA weekend event
